DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

It's been one year since we lost our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice. As we remember this sad anniversary, we bring you a special encore presentation of one of our most emotional episodes. Recorded before a live audience at Colleen Hoover's Book Bonanza in Dallas, Texas earlier this year, join Christopher and Eric, and their special guests, bestselling romance writers Lexi Blake and Xio A...

We're calling it the train wreck episode, and not just because the crime involved took place next to some railroad tracks. Listen to find out why this became the most chaotic installment of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club to date. Allegedly your hosts serve up an episode of a show called DEAD OF WINTER. Specifically, episode 5 of season 1. We think. We hope. One thing's for sure, madcap...

The brutal slaying of a prominent attorney's wife and son is only the beginning of this dark saga of murder, homophobia and corruption in South Carolina's Low Country. Your hosts — former southerners themselves — take a deep dive into this swampy, deadly soup by way of the HBO Max documentary series LOW COUNTRY: THE MURDAUGH DYNASTY. By the end, they have a possible theory of the case no one seems...

Smart British crime-solvers and gorgeous royal gowns. A riveting historical novel about one woman's search for revenge in earthquake ravaged San Francisco. It's all on the menu at Christopher and Eric's holiday time round up of their pop culture highlights from 2022. Belly up to the table as your hosts ladle out delicious servings of the TV shows they were most thankful for this year, along with t...

Where are the children? Some true crime stories reach out from the screen and grab you by the throat from the second you first read the headline. That's what happened to Christopher and Eric when the tale of one of the most evil mothers in history first started making headlines in 2019. Does the new Netflix series SINS OF OUR MOTHER reveal depths of Lori Vallow's delusional evil and religious fana...

Are Christopher and Eric really going to do an entire episode about daylight savings time? Not really. They're going to take an entire episode to spotlight how much they DESPISE daylight savings time. And apparently you do too, Party People, because you flooded our Facebook page with comments to that effect. If there's anything dimmer than daylight savings time itself, it's critic-at-large Jordan...

In the two years since your hosts Christopher and Eric started marking the Halloween season anniversary of young Billy Newton's gruesome and long unsolved murder, new witnesses and a potential suspects have emerged. For Christopher and Eric's first in studio interview, the LAPD homicide detective who inherited the case brings us an update on the current state of the investigation, and a new set of...

Are vampires real? Do werewolves enjoy their hairy gifts? Speaking of hair, would Christopher and Eric be able to recognize William Shatner in public if he didn't have his wig on? And why did William Shatner block Christopher on Twitter?! These are the thrilling, urgent and scientific questions your hosts tackle as they serve up episode 15 of THE UNXPLAINED, a show that mixes green screens and que...

As your hosts Christopher and Eric kick off the Halloween season, they turned to you, our beloved Party People, to hear about the scariest experience you ever had that couldn't be easily explained. Ghosts! Messages from the beyond! Strange figures walking in the woods. There are chills aplenty on this spooky new episode, thanks to your spine-tingling contributions on The Dinner Party Show's Facebo...

For years now, Eric Shaw Quinn has proclaimed that if Lyle and Erik Menendez had been women, there would be statues of them on the lawn of the Beverly Hills Courthouse. Today, as the Discovery ID documentary MENENDEZ BROTHERS: MISJUDGED makes clear, a growing movement of young people are starting to agree with your host. Do Lyle and Erik Menendez deserve to spend the rest of their life behind bars...

It's almost impossible to believe that our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice's 81st birthday is happening without her on this earth, but Christopher and Eric are sure she would have loved this tribute to one of her favorite subjects — tales of the paranormal — and one of her favorite films. To celebrate Anne's life and work, we asked you, our Party People, to share ghost stories of your own...

Eric searched the heavens for a True Crime TV Club that could mark the autumnal equinox and somehow we all ended up at a gym in Florida. Find out how we made the strange trip as your hosts serve up episode 2 of season 1 of KILLER BODS, entitled "Pride & Payback". What turned a gorgeous physical trainer to South Florida's elite into an agent of death and destruction? Was it oblivious corporate over...

Will the upcoming midterms be a referendum on the SCOTUS decision about abortion? Will a certain treasonous and psychotic former president's picks for office make the cut? Are you as sick of these questions as we are? Good. Because Christopher and Eric will largely ignore them as they focus their election season episode on a far less consequential and entirely hypothetical match up. Who would make...

Join the Party People and your hosts Eric and Christopher for the release of another steamy and emotional gay romance novel from Christopher's alter ego. SAPPHIRE SPRING, the second book in the Sapphire Cove series, deals with a topic many of us have experienced firsthand, high school bullying. And so we asked you this — What would your bully need to say or to do today to make up for the way they...

Serial killer Stephen Port used the anonymity offered by the Internet to kill and to deceive the grieving in diabolical ways. But to what extent was he aided and abetted by the incompetence and homophobia of the local police? And to what extent does this prestigious limited series on Britbox stick with the known facts of the case? Christopher and Eric are surprised by the answers as they serve up...

In the first serving of this all new True Crime Pairing, Christopher and Eric head across the pond and into the twisted mind of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, Stephen Port. In "How The Police Missed The Grindr Killer" — the BBC doc is available on You Tube here in the United States — we learn how Port claimed the innocent lives of several young queer men before playing sadistic mi...

With summer on the wane, it's time for a Back to School themed query on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. We asked, you answered. If you could travel back in time and relive your high school experience all over again, what would you do differently and why? Christopher and Eric have their own answers. Incompetent critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand joins us with his thoughts on the topic, or does...

With its period costumes and not-always-terrible reenactors, the Discovery Channel series A CRIME TO REMEMBER is a TDPS favorite, but episode 6 of season 4, entitled "Guess Who?" left Christopher and Eric scratching their heads and checking the rafters. This story of marital murder in 1922 Los Angeles at first seems pretty cut and dried….until you look up. As the twists and turns unfold, Eric focu...

In which your hosts Christopher and Eric get self-reflective about something other than their diet plans. Why do we love true crime stories? What do we gain from studying them and discussing them? We asked you for your thoughts on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Many of you went deep, some of you went dark, and that's why you're our Party People.

Christopher and Eric's True Crime Special Editions bring you a multi-episode true crime documentary series in one steaming episode of their opinion-packed podcast. This Special Edition is THE CLOWN AND THE CANDYMAN, currently streaming on Discovery Plus. Is it a probing expose of the secret child abuse rings that connected depraved serial killers Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy or a fevered batch o...

Are we alone in the universe? Did countless residents of Phoenix, Arizona all lose their minds on the same spring evening in 1997? Do the makers of the JJ Abrams produced Showtime documentary series "UFO" care about the answers to these questions as much as Christopher and Eric do? Listen to this out-there episode to find out. It's capped off by a frightening close encounter of the absurd kind wit...

As summer continues, Christopher and Eric take to the high seas of true crime again. This particular journey leads them to a destination so chilling its details are forever seared in their memories. Tom and Jackie Dawes decided to sell their fifty-foot pleasure cruiser so they could move closer to their new grandson. But after a planned meeting with the boat's new buyers, the loving husband and wi...

In their first ever live on location episode of "TDPS Presents CHRISTOPHER & ERIC", your hosts travel to Book Bonanza in Dallas, Texas for a mimosa-filled celebration of Premiere Party Person — and Christopher's mother — Anne Rice. For this special tribute, they're joined by bestselling romance authors Lexi Blake and Xio Axelrod, who celebrate the impact Anne had on their work and the world of pre...

Summer's upon us and it's time for Christopher and Eric to set sail on the high seas of murder. Or the more murky waters of mysterious disappearances. Now that Eric has singlehandedly "saved the Peacock", he's plumbing the depths of the NBC streaming platform's true crime offerings and salvaging the most promising pieces of lost cargo. That's how he found CRUISE SHIP KILLERS,  season 1, episode 25...

Our last Pride Month episode of 2022 comes to you on the anniversaries of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decisions that made marriage equality the law of the land. What better way to celebrate than with a tribute to HEARTSTOPPER, a new Netflix series that has forever raised the bar for depictions of queer men and their love. Swoon along with Christopher and Er...